The two PML-N workers who were arrested in connection with killing of two PTI activists in a clash on Sunday night in Lahore’ Yakki Gate area have been granted interim bail till November 1.
Reportedly, the accused, Chaudhry Zahid and Ahmad Rasheed, were produced before an anti-terrorism court on Monday. They both informed the court that the accusations leveled against them about stopping PTI workers from electioneering were false.
Upon this, the court granted them interim bail till the first of November.
Meanwhile, funeral prayers for Khurram and Arif Shehzad, the PTI workers killed in the clash, were offered on Monday. PTI leaders Shafqat Mehmood, Umar Cheema, Aleem Khan, Aijaz Chaudhry, Mehmoodur Rasheed and Jamaat-e-Islami’s Liaquat Baloch and Fareed Paracha attended the last rites of the deceased.
Late Sunday night, two PTI workers were killed and several others wounded in a clash with PML-N activists while heading campaigns for their parties’ candidates for the local bodies’ elections. According to details, PML-N workers, including Malik Phuppa, Allah Datta and several others, had opened fire at the PTI activists.
